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January 20, 2014, 9:55 AM

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Rolfe Winkler / Digits:

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Kara Swisher / Re/code:

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Wall Street Journal:

IBM Revives Effort to Sell Low-End Server Business — Revives An Effort That Came Close To Yielding A Deal Last Year — International Business Machines Corp. is exploring a sale of its low-end server business, according to people familiar with the matter, reviving an effort that came close to yielding a deal last year.

More: Gigaom, Ars Technica, ZDNet, Reuters and The Register

David Segal / New York Times:

More on Silk Road creator: FBI arrested Ulbricht before he could close laptop, Ulbricht asked agent posing as dealer to execute Silk Road employee — Eagle Scout. Idealist. Drug Trafficker? — Ross Ulbricht's last moments as a free man were noisy enough to draw a crowd.

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Stuart Dredge / Music Ally:

Spotify opens up merchandise-selling feature to all artists — Over recent weeks, more than 200 artists have been selling merchandise through their Spotify profiles, after the streaming music service announced a partnership with D2C firm Topspin to launch the new feature. Now it's being opened up to everyone.

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Paul Sieminski / Wired:

Corporations Abusing Copyright Laws Are Ruining the Web for Everyone — Picture this somewhat typical scenario: Before breakfast, you use WordPress to write your morning blog post, which includes a screen shot of a movie you saw last night, along with your thoughts about the film.

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Mike Lennon / SecurityWeek:

Bluebox Security Raises $18 Million to Tackle Enterprise Mobile Threats — Tenaya Capital Joins Andreessen Horowitz, Andreas Bechtolsheim, and SV Angel in $18 Million Funding Round — Bluebox Security, a San Francisco, California-based mobile security company that has been operating …

More: PandoDaily, TechCrunch and Re/code

Joshua Hunt / New Yorker:

Sony's SRF-39FP Radio: The iPod of Prison — In early 2005, Josh Demmitt arrived at a federal prison camp, in Sheridan, Oregon, to serve a thirty-month sentence for starting a fire outside an animal-testing facility at Brigham Young University. The nineteen-year-old received a warm welcome …

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Sharif Sakr / Engadget:

Kim Dotcom previews new music streaming site, Baboom, with his own europop album — Kim Dotcom previews new music streaming site with his own europop album — Kim Dotcom has done it again. Two years after he rented a bunch of musicians (including Will.i.am) to promote his illegal Megaupload service …

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Dan Seifert / The Verge:

Oppo N1 review: first legit CyanogenMod phone lacks LTE, doesn't stand out next to competition — Oppo N1 review: CyanogenMod goes legit — Out of the hacker forums and into the real world — If you've ever owned an Android phone and have even lightly explored the world of custom ROMs …

More: IntoMobile, Pocket-lint, PhoneArena, Android Police and CNET. Tweets: @labnol

Luke Edwards / Pocket-lint:

Samsung Galaxy S5 new UI leaks again looking like an attractive Google Now — Samsung's refreshed UI looks almost certain now. Yet more photos have leaked online at the same time as the Galaxy S5 rumour mill gets up to speed. — We're expecting to see the new Samsung UI unveiled …

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